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The conditioning of the maximum entropy covariance matrix and its inverse

✍ Scribed by Delores Conway; Henri Theil

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1982
Tongue: English
Weight: 301 KB
Volume: 1
Category: Article
ISSN: 0167-7152
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(82)90024-4

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